With facebook , people keep telling me they talk to friends from many years ago. Why do people want to do that now? I have zero interest in that.
I live where I grew up so I can talk to friends from way back in person but I don’t. It seems really odd to not talk to someone in 30 years and then suddenly want to link up with them via facebook?
I moved from my hometown at 18, stayed gone for 20+ years. Its nice to see what everyone else has been doing during all that time. Nostalgia I guess. If you’ve never felt that way, good it will save you lots of time to do things like this.
I don’t think it’s that they want to link up with them via facebook, it’s that they can. Facebook brought them together. All you have to do is log on to facebook and suddenly all your old friends from high school and college are right there with almost no effort
That is, people might not randomly think that they want to see Bob from high school and start looking for him, but if they heard that he hangs out at a certain bar, they might make a point of heading down there some Friday night to see him.
Also, just because you don’t want to see your friends from 30 years ago doesn’t mean no one else does.
To see if those cheerleaders who would never give me the time of day ever got their comeuppance? 
Because I did move away and I can’t talk to friends from way back in person. I know, weird.
I get nostalgia at the oddest of times. I’ll be talking to someone about where I grew up and I’ll suddenly remember a nice memory that will include someone I haven’t seen in 25+ years. It’ll lead me to spend a few minutes trying to track them down and see how they are now. It never works out, either they’re not available or my memory is completely different to theirs.
I don’t do Facebook, but in a bored moment, I googled some of the more unusual names of former classmates - mostly guys, since it appears most of the girls married and changed their names. Anyway, I found the guy who took me to my 8th grade graduation dance - he works for the state, and his work email was posted. I dropped him a line, and after 43 years, we met again for dinner. I’m married and I wasn’t looking for a fling or anything, and he and I had a nice talk about where life had taken us since 1968.
It was a nice walk down memory lane. I’d do it again if I could track down others from the old days. Guess it just doesn’t take a lot to amuse me.
Someone explained to me this was a way to keep in contact with people you don’t really want to talk to. I don’t want to keep in contact with people I don’t really want to talk to. So I don’t have a FB account and never will. I don’t get it all. I have a very simple system for not talking to people I don’t really want to talk to.
It’s not worked out IME. There were three old friends that I tracked down, but after all these years, we have almost nothing in common other than shared experiences from when we were callow youths. The only person who ever contacted me was a psycho ex-girlfriend from 40-some years ago. I didn’t reply. I attended my 40th reunion and the same people gravitated into the cliques they were in when they were eighteen. Other than superficial conversation, nobody was really interested in maintaining contact, despite promises to do so.
BTW , I don’t use facebook. Nothing against it, just never saw the need for it.
Even though I still live where I grew up , many school friends live in other states. Also I never go to school reunions.
I guess it makes people remember the good old days when there were no kids , bills , jobs, etc. to worry about .